Chapter 208: Let's go, one way or the other

On Monday, Man Chen met with Qingcheng Xie for the last time before he left.

As a member of the Dream Breakers organization, Qingcheng Xie naturally knew his next task.

"Brother, the injury on your forehead ......"

"It's okay, it's better." Qingcheng Xie and Man Chen walk side by side in the martyrs' cemetery, the breeze brushing the hem of their black clothes.

After the sins of Rong Wei were made public, the tombs of Ping Xie and Muying Zhou were finally moved by the Huzhou police to the garden, near the tombstone of Lisheng Chen.

Qingcheng Xie and Man Chen each offered a bouquet of white flowers to their deceased friends who died many years ago, and the fragrance of white chrysanthemums lingered on their fingers.

Qingcheng Xie looked at Lisheng Chen's tomb, with the sound of pine and cypress waves in his ears and the mocking of crows: "Tomorrow we will move, right?"

"Hmm."

"Twenty-three years."

"Yeah ......"

"In fact, I still remember that before my father's accident, once and I said, in a few days one of his disciples will come to my house as a guest ...... should be that your brother. The two of them have always had a very good relationship, unlike the others my dad brought before."

The gold letters on the tombstone have been somewhat dulled because of the long interval.

"My father has not brought many apprentices before, almost all are taught with colleagues, on your brother and one of your brother's classmates is not yet graduated under him completely by him to lead the internship."

"Well, I know. It's Brother Yun Li. His grave is also here, right here at ......"

Qingcheng Xie did not want to go to pay his respects, he just mentioned casually that Yun Li had gone to another master after his conversion, and he did not know the family very well.

The two spent another moment in the cemetery in silence with the dead, the forest leaves rustling.

Qingcheng Xie suddenly said to Man Chen, "That's right."

"Hmm?"

"Part of the reason you moved to Hiroshima three years ago was because you heard their suspicions about Shi He's pharmaceuticals, wasn't it?"

Man Chen's eyes widened with a sudden shock.

He did not expect Qingcheng Xie to suddenly change the subject and ask him such a question.

This question three years ago Qingcheng Xie did not pursue him, but now ......

The sky was filled with low flowing clouds, Qingcheng Xie's hands were in the pockets of his trench coat, he deliberately did not look at Man Chen, but continued to look at the tombstones of the fallen police officers.

Man Chen's voice was a bit shaky, even though Qingcheng Xie talked about this matter after talking to him about something else, but he still felt it at once - in fact, this is what Qingcheng Xie really wanted to talk about when he met with him today.

He shuddered, "Brother ...... you ...... you already knew?"

"...... hmm."

Man Chen's face became whiter and whiter: "Then you ...... then why you ......"

"Why don't I ask you, do I?" Qingcheng Xie looked at Lisheng Chen's tombstone and whispered to Man Chen.

"......"

"Why didn't I ask you after Yu He's accident at sea that year. Why didn't I ever ask you when I had so many opportunities in the last three years."

"......"

A crow's cry pierced the sky, and in the sullen cemetery, Qingcheng Xie finally turned slowly sideways and looked at Man Chen.

"Because I chose to trust you, I trusted a police officer." Qingcheng Xie said, "I know you hated Yu He at that time, and you desperately wanted to find evidence of his treachery, which was your selfishness. However, I also believe that you never wanted to wrongly accuse him, and you did not want to deliberately kill him or insist on killing him during the arrest process."

"Brother Xie ......"

"People have selfishness, the key is to be able to keep that last line. I grew up watching you, I know you always have that line in your heart, so even though you were the last person to see Yu He at that time, I didn't believe you would use your public/job to deliberately hurt him out of selfishness."

Only then did Man Chen realize why Qingcheng Xie, who left China three years ago, would ask himself, "What was Yu He like at that time?" when he finally met with him.

After his own silence, Qingcheng Xie did not pursue the matter further.

Man Chen's eyes filled with tears - yes, he went to Hiroshima partly because he really wanted to grow up, but also partly because, as Qingcheng Xie said, he did learn that there might be problems with Shi He's drug dealings in Hiroshima, and he thought If Yu He had really committed a crime, he could catch it himself.

Later Yu He died, the suicide note was exposed, everyone knew that Yu He was wrongly accused, he also had very complicated feelings at that time, although he never wanted to frame Yu He, he still felt like he was slapped by an invisible hand.

The fact that he learned about the criminal information of Shi He's group became the claw that kept tormenting his heart.

He wanted to talk to Qingcheng Xie several times, but did not dare to speak, afraid to say Qingcheng Xie will misunderstand ...... But he did not expect, Qingcheng Xie actually from the beginning to see everything clearly.

Man Chen shuddered, "Don't you ...... suspect me?"

Qingcheng Xie: "I know you're not like that by nature."

Man Chen's tears then finally fell and he choked up and said, "Thank you brother ......"

Qingcheng Xie: "After I talk to you today, the last knot in your heart will be gone. Man Chen, I hope you do not have to torment yourself because of what happened three years ago, and never get peace. I didn't have a good time all these years because I was resenting anyone, I just thought I should have handled it better so that Yu He wouldn't have gotten into trouble. But I didn't do it."

Man Chen wiped his tears with all his might and shook his head, "No, brother, it's not."

"Tomorrow you're going out to sea to Dela Man Island. That place is very dangerous." Qingcheng Xie looked into Man Chen's eyes, "So I want you to go without any burden on your shoulders, and then remember, make sure to protect yourself. When you come back, live well for your big brother."

His voice was calm, low and slow, and had the same calming power as at any time before.

Man Chen can no longer hold back, his chest for three years in the block finally in his cry slowly disintegrated.

He knew it was Qingcheng Xie worried about him if there were any accidents, only to take the initiative to pick the thorns before the trip and release the heavy burden on his heart. He wiped his tears and said, "Brother ...... thank you ......"

Qingcheng Xie patted his shoulder, leaned over, and finally lit a cigarette in front of Lisheng Chen's grave.

Twenty-three years.

Is the dawn, indeed, coming?

The cemetery was cold and silent, and it was as if countless eyes were watching the living who were about to travel far away to seek justice.

At this moment, Man Chen does not know that Qingcheng Xie will take the initiative to untie his heart, not only because of the fear that he will have an accident, but because for this battle, Qingcheng Xie's heart already has an idea.

That idea is something that no one except the dean of beauty and education knows about yet.

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The next day, at the break of dawn, the real encounter, finally began.

A group of front-line troops, including Man Chen, waited for the official landing on Dela Man Island, which had been planned for three years, while Yu He and other key players were still in the country.

The vast army assembled, boarded the ship, and departed-

The fleet broke the ocean and sailed out into the vast open sea in the direction of that island they knew to be positioned.

The first group of 3,000 personnel for this operation consisted of a core of armed SWAT officers, Interpol officers, and scientific researchers who had been fighting Wen Duan for years, leading combat-experienced fighters equipped with highly sophisticated weapons. The main task of this group of fighters was to penetrate Dela Man's core as much as possible, while collecting real-time combat intelligence, passing it to the rear headquarters personnel, and constantly completing the information to spearhead the second and third batches of reinforcements.

Jingfeng Zheng is old and the chief commander did not let him go to the front line, so he became one of the leaders of the rear headquarters. Although he is only an old detective with little official position, he has been in charge of the relevant cases for twenty years, so he was entrusted with the important responsibility of being the important leader of the Dream Breaker organization.

These days, he is completely absent from home, almost continuously working overtime at the headquarters.

The news from the front line kept coming in, Jingfeng Zheng stared at the command and kept updating the data, the blood in everyone's eyes were almost pulled into a spider web, and the data was still snowballing like a constant surge.

"Update the attack mode of combat robots to add a chance of self/explosion when the robot is attacked until it cannot move."

"Data has been analyzed, the absolute safe distance when the robots self/explode is one kilometer. Their head device has the lowest chance of detonation, and it is recommended to target the head for attack during combat."

"The attack data of the combat robot is currently at ninety-five percent."

"......"

Jingfeng Zheng is a stubborn old man who does not like milk tea, but he stared at the values and the real-time video of the battle coming back from the front, with smoke and blood flying in the picture, he still could not help but reach out, grabbed the fat house milk tea by the technician's hand and took a heavy sip to try to make himself feel better.

"Team Zheng, my milk tea ......"

"It's given to me, you keep changing the data, don't stop."

"......"

The results of this battle are remarkable, in just three days, Dela Man's detailed map has been built nearly half in the background, thanks to the combat numerical collection device " Bo Feng " designed by the technical boss of the command. Bo Feng is a ring clasp worn on the wrists of soldiers, capable of recording war values accurately and automatically recording important battle scenes and the island's terrain. Each of the three thousand soldiers they sent was equipped with a " Bo Feng ".

"How's the map coming?"

"It's forty-two percent accurate."

Jingfeng Zheng smiled and slapped the technician's shoulder: "Great! When it's increased to fifty percent, I'll order a cup of milk tea for each of you."

Technician: "...... Team Zheng, you're so fucking stingy."

But everyone's inner excitement is real, Bo Feng build the map and the previous vague satellite map is not the same, its data will be imported into the weaponry of the second batch of landers, artificial ai will be recorded on the attack targets for combat tips, will tell the combatants how they should respond, can give the combatants guide the way, break through the obstacles.

In other words, the Bo Feng system will become a "game cheat" for warriors.

The Dreambreakers organization gave the first group of pioneers the task of attacking to thirty percent within a week, and because of the much preparatory work they had done before and the high morale of the soldiers, they had already reached forty-two percent on the third day, which greatly exceeded the Dreambreakers' expectations. What is even more encouraging is that the number of soldiers sacrificed by the Dreambreakers was also far below the expectation. These long-time veterans exerted their strong survival ability on the battlefield, dodging one attack of the steel machines with their flesh and blood.

On the fifth day, however, the situation suddenly shifted.

In the middle of the night this day, the monitor in command suddenly let out a cry of alarm, a cry that startled everyone around.

"What's wrong?" Jingfeng Zheng immediately snatched over and asked, his leopard eyes staring at the screen.

Although the old police officer could not read the string of English codes, but he also looked at the monitor for so many days, the screen suddenly appeared on the large red so that he did not wait to answer, cold sweat dripped down.

What followed was a shivering explanation from the technician that stabbed him hard in the heart like an ice pick.

"Team Zheng! Bo Feng system monitoring points ...... suddenly one by one ...... are disappearing ......"

"!!!"

Bo Feng system monitoring point, to put it bluntly, is the ring band on the wrist of each soldier, it will not stop recording, unless it is damaged.

But the bracelets were carried close by the warriors, and they suddenly disappeared from the map, which means that -

"The front line ......" the technician shuddered, "the front line fighters ...... suddenly... ...suddenly died in large numbers ......"

Technical B said with a miserable white face, "No monitoring data is coming back."

Tech C wipes sweat: "At fifty-six percent of Dela Man Island, all data transmissions are interrupted ...... have no idea what's going on ......"

It's almost like a horror story.

The original army of more than 2,000 people suddenly disappeared from the map with great speed, as if it was not more than 2,000 people, but more than 2,000 ants, a giant's foot fell, so many lives can be destroyed in an instant. And the recorder was too late to capture any battle scenes!

Everyone gathered, and after seeing the scene on the screen, there was silence.

"How did this happen ......" It took a long time before someone broke the dead silence in the command room.

"Can you reach the frontline personnel?"

"No, all transmissions are also interrupted ......"

The commander opened a satellite map and the location of the army's accident was located in the middle of Dela Man Island near the Blood River, a man-made chemical river that served as a natural barrier to the fortress of Dela Man.

Blood River steams a lot of toxic chemical gas all year round, the island's animals never dare to approach, and the surrounding area is not an inch of grass.

They have long known this feature of the Blood River, but also in the departure of the soldiers are equipped with special anti-poisoning equipment, as a rule, it is never possible to have this situation.

And if it was an accident when crossing the blood river, then the front line lost should also be in batches, it is not possible that the entire force of more than two thousand people in just a few seconds to break the company.

Commander: "Tune in to the data, how long was it from the last message received from the front line to the complete disconnection?"

The technician's fingers crackled over the keyboard, "Report sir, 2.47 seconds."

The command room was practically pin-drop.

2.47 seconds.

What could hit a team of 2,000 people with highly sophisticated weapons in 2.47 seconds with precision and not miss a single person? Wen Duan himself was on Dela Man Island, it's not like he could have dropped any nuclear weapons on his lair, and as far as satellite monitoring is concerned, there was no major damage to Dela Man Island itself ......

Was there some secret weapon on that island that they had spent three years not monitoring?

The pupils of the commander's eyes staring at the screen were clenching violently.

What the heck is going on ......!

Day 6.

No news.

On the seventh day, there was still no message from anyone alive ahead.

All the relevant senior management gathered in the Dream Breaker General Command, anxiety with the smoke of cigarettes, and constantly spread among them. Political commissar Wang arrived at the Huzhou headquarters on the morning of the sixth day, he was already very old, and after a day and a night, his eyes were sunken and his description was withered, but he still refused to rest and stared at the screen, as if hoping that a few surviving green dots would suddenly appear among the red that represented "destruction".

But no.

Two days have passed and nothing miraculous has come.

But the fear in the society is growing day by day, the dream breaker's mission to attack the island is a confidential mission, of course, will not let the people know, but "listening water", "obedient" these drugs caused by the accident, but how can not be concealed.

If Wen Duan's drug trials were previously limited to a limited number of leukemia patients, the situation is completely different when medical therapies are involved.

These cases are not purely psychotic Bola Ai like Qingcheng Xie, but rather, they have more violent and obvious outbreaks, most notably a sudden loss of consciousness and aggressive behavior toward people around them. Researchers are now referring to these individuals as "sub-psychotic Bola Ai patients".

A few days ago, a victim of black medical beauty, who was not discovered by the police in time, suddenly became ill in a subway station and actually beat up an elderly passenger beside him to the point of serious injury, and is still in hospital.

More and more people are caught up in the fear of the disease, and even those who are discharged from the hospital with sub-psychiatric Bola Ai are treated differently by others with tinted glasses.

"Crazy people should stay in the loony bin."

"On what basis are they released? Are you sure they are really cured? Who knows when they will have another attack, releasing them is irresponsible to society!"

"It's disgusting. To cure their leukemia, they use illegal drugs when they don't have money, and the kind of women who go for plastic surgery to be pretty, have no sense of responsibility to the country, infect diseases and become a cancer to the country! For the safety of the country and the people, we should shoot them irresponsible trash!"

"Indeed, let them go to hell. It's all self-inflicted."

The island battle is in an unknown situation, while the society is in another mess and the situation is getting worse.

By the eighth day.

Disputes began to emerge within the Dream Breakers.

According to the original plan, the second group of soldiers was supposed to go to Dela Man Island the day before to join the first group of troops from the rear, but due to the current unforeseen situation, the process was delayed.

Among the high level, some people think that the second group of soldiers must leave immediately, without further delay, otherwise this mission will not be completed. But another part of the people think that at present, we simply do not know what exactly is that weapon that reduced the second army in 2.47 seconds, and rashly let the second order team go to rescue, most likely will cause more serious consequences, let more soldiers innocent sacrifice.

Surprisingly, despite the fact that Man Chen is in the first echelon and his life or death is still uncertain, Wang Zhengwei chose to be on the latter's side after a long deliberation.

He said, "We can't let the elite die in vain; we must find out more about the situation before we can send our soldiers to the front."

And the top brass asked the commander-in-chief, "- Haven't you always said you have a scattergun? Your scattergun approach is no help at all in the face of this problem, is it?"

The commander-in-chief, Qing Tie, licked his lips with the tip of his tongue, looking like he wanted to say something, but he held back and did not say.

Jingfeng Zheng suddenly said, "What if we turn the second echelon into the third echelon?"

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is ......" Jingfeng Zheng has been thinking about this method for a whole day, he made up his mind and spoke, "In order to avoid more sacrifices, we temporarily do not send the second echelon The purpose of the second echelon is not to go up to the island, but to go straight to the vicinity of the Blood River and try to find out what happened there, which is better than knowing nothing."

Commander: "Actually, I've thought about this method you mentioned, but-"

"But?"

"The island has been cleared part still remains a lot of robot soldiers and mechanical combat dogs, the chances of being able to arrive successfully is very low." The commander sighed, "need very good hands, insight, otherwise once and a large number of mechanical warriors head-on, to survive there is absolutely no possibility."

"I can go." Jingfeng Zheng said.

Everyone was silent, those or surprised or sharp eyes all looked at the old detective.

"You know my resume, you know my counter-surveillance skills, my insight, you know what I've done in these decades of criminal policing." The old cop said, "I'm willing to take people to the island."

There was a long silence.

Finally, it was Commissar Wang who coughed, with some hidden sigh in his voice.

"Old Zheng, you were indeed once the number one criminal police officer in Huzhou in terms of overall ability, a front-line cadre, but you are old ......"

Jingfeng Zheng : "I'm older, but I'm also more experienced, I once infiltrated with my teammates into the base of drug traffickers in Myanmar, we lurked inside for four whole days, eating a little compressed cookie on my body, not moving ...... I can do the same now can do undetected, no matter how harsh the conditions of infiltration, I was able to endure."

"This time, we're facing robots." The commander said wearily, "Old Zheng, that's not something normal people can do, the odds are that it's a death sentence."

Jingfeng Zheng : "Then why can't my life be delivered? Why does such a risk have to be taken by someone younger?"

"......"

"I'm a front-line detective, I've been a front-line detective all my life, and I haven't retired." Jingfeng Zheng said, "I know the chances of success in doing this are not good, but I am the most suitable candidate for the most inadequate sacrifice."

Combatant: "Ugh! Old Zheng, don't be impulsive, you ......"

Jingfeng Zheng suddenly said, "Do you know why I am talking about catching the Myanmar drug lord?"

"......"

"Because that was my first assignment out of the police academy back then. The two comrades who lurked motionlessly with me for four days in the darkness of the cargo bay crevice were Ping Xie and Muying Zhou."

"...... Almost forty years have passed, and the only one left alive is me." Jingfeng Zheng always cold and rigid eyes actually have a vague wet light, "I think now is the time when I can fight alongside them again."

"The culprit they have not caught, it is my turn to take over the task and go forward to seize."

The people in the conference room looked at each other, and that one face gradually became full of emotion.

They are all battle-hardened people who have had many regrets in their lives, and there are some comrades who will never come back to stay in their hearts.

It's not that they don't understand the sentiment.

The atmosphere in the room was depressed to the extreme for a while, and everyone was silent ......

However, at that moment, the automatic doors of the conference room suddenly rang open on both sides.

A tall, erect man walked in, from the shadows to the incandescent light.

He said, "Uncle Zheng, the most suitable person to go is not you."

The crowd turned around in consternation.

Jingfeng Zheng met the peach blossom eyes of the visitor.

Those eyes looked at him gently but firmly.

"The best person for this task, is me."